Western Colorado

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School board member is accused of sex assault

A former Los Angeles police officer, retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and former Plateau Valley School District board member has been arrested on suspicion he repeatedly sexually assaulted a teenager starting in mid-2003, the Mesa ...

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MORE DRILLING CUTBACKS AHEAD

RIFLE — More natural gas developers said today that they are scaling back local operations, citing the same factors that already have led other energy companies to reduce the levels of their investments in western Colorado. The latest ...

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Simple memorial serves as a reminder of tragedy

The seasons have changed from balmy to bitterly crisp since the slaying of pregnant Grand Junction woman Anna Maria Macias. A modest but touching makeshift memorial for the 23-year-old mother, placed near the entrance of the Garden Village ...

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Passion for birds brought couple together and keeps them active

“Somebody’s calling,” said Fran Didier, suddenly detecting a bird’s faint shrill piercing the seemingly silent air. The wetlands area at the Audubon Society’s headquarters near Connected Lakes State Park seems ...

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Publisher of Sentinel to take Fla. position

Daily Sentinel publisher Alex Taylor will become publisher of Florida’s Palm Beach Post in January. Taylor is taking the position currently held by Doug Franklin, who is becoming executive vice president of Cox Newspapers. The moves ...

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Last Rosevale holdouts sign up for water

The last two Rosevale-area residents who hadn’t signed up for water service from the Ute Water Conservancy District have agreed to the new service. “We officially have everyone signed up for water service,” Ute spokesman Joe ...

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DA: Fuji johns unlikely to be charged

Authorities say their probe of Fuji Oriental Massage Therapy and other massage parlors across the valley is targeting alleged pimps and the proceeds from selling sex, reducing the likelihood that clients who solicited those businesses will be ...

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Colorado low-income families take beating on paying for college

Low-income Colorado families are committing nearly half of their incomes to pay for their children’s college education, even with financial aid packages, according to a national higher-education report. A biennial study, ...

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Community college gives high honor to one of its main architects

The Kerry Youngblood who walked into a room full of his friends Wednesday is a musician, a devoted father and a welder. But it was Dr. Youngblood, the educator who helped create what is now Western Colorado Community College, for whom the ...

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Thanks to city, it’s again showtime at the Avalon

The lights didn’t stay dim at the Avalon Theatre for long. Less than a month after the financially troubled nonprofit Cinema at the Avalon folded, cutting off a five-year run of nearly daily showings of independent and foreign films, ...

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